| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 285 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1. Nancy and Tonya and Sonja: The Figure of the Figure Skater in American Entertainment / Jane Feuer -- 2. "A Radiant Smile from the Lovely Lady": Overdetermined Femininity in "Ladies" Figure Skating / Abigail M. Feder -- 3. Pure Desire / Laura Jacobs -- 4. What Tonya Harding Means to Me, or Images of Independent Female Power on Ice / Ellyn Kestnbaum -- 5. Fear of Falling / Judith Mayne -- 6. Viktor Petrenko's Mother-in-Law / Marjorie Garber -- 7. Tonya's Bad Boot, or, Go Figure / Robyn Wiegman and Lynda Zwinger -- 8. Feminists on Thin Ice: Re-Fusing Dualism in the Narrative of Nancy and Tonya / Diane Raymond -- 9. The Glass Slipper / Melanie Thernstrom -- 10. Tales of the Ice Princess and the Trash Queen: Cultural Fictions and the Production of "Women" / Sandy Flitterman-Lewis -- 11. A Skater is Being Beaten / Mimi White -- 12. Cool Medium on Ice: Tonya, Nancy, and TV / Lynn Spigel -- 13. Narrative, Gender, and TV News: Comparing Network and Tabloid Stories / Jill Dianne Swenson -- 14. An American Tragedy / Stacey D'Erasmo -- 15. Tonya, Nancy, and the Bodily Figuration of Social Class / Sam Stoloff -- 16. Tonya, Nancy, and the Dream Scheme: Nationalizing the 1994 Olympics / Marsha Kinder -- 17. The Olympics and Post-Cold War Femininities: Tonya and Nancy / Zillah R. Eisenstein and Patricia R. Zimmermann -- 18. Dreaming of Tonya / Cynthia Baughman -- Appendix I: A Glossary of Skating Terms / Ellyn Kestnbaum -- Appendix II: Scoring of Singles Figure Skating Competitions (or how Nancy Kerrigan missed winning a gold medal at Lillehammer) / Ellyn Kestnbaum |
| Summary |
The attack on Nancy Kerrigan at the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships set the stage for a Winter Olympics spectacle: Tonya versus Nancy. Women on Ice collects the writings of a diverse group of feminists who address and question our national obsession with Tonya and Nancy and what this tells us about perceptions of women in twentieth century America |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Harding, Tonya. swd |
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Kerrigan, Nancy. swd |
| Subject |
Women figure skaters -- Social conditions
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Women figure skaters -- Conduct of life
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Women in mass media.
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Stereotypes (Social psychology) in mass media.
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Feminist criticism.
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Feminist literary criticism.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Ice & Figure Skating.
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Feminist criticism
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Stereotypes (Social psychology) in mass media
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Women in mass media
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Aggression
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Eiskunstlauf
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Wettbewerbsverhalten
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Baughman, Cynthia
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| ISBN |
9781135770686 |
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1135770689 |
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